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WASHING MACHINE.. l No. 255,216. Patented 1111.212882.

v WI TJVESSES, I ZJVV'EJV'TO i .Attorney V. VAN DEN WASHING MA CCCCC 2Sheets-Sh' eeeee UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VAN VAN DENBURGH, OF BACON HILL, NEW YORK.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,216, dated March21, 1882.

Application led October 19, 1881.

stantially as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical section of myimproved washing-machine, and Fig. 2 is a plan view with the outercylinder and the handle and yoke of the shaft ot the inner disk removed.Fig. 3 is a detailed view, partly in section and partly in perspective,of my invention. Y

A refers to the outer iiuted or corrugated cylinder, in which the waterfor washing may be heated.

B is the inner cylinder, constructed without' a bottom and of lessdiameter than, and placed within, the cylinder A, both cylindersstanding in an upright position. The inner bottomless cylinder hasaffixed to it, at opposite points upon its inside at the lower end,inverted-V-shaped arms or sockets a, the function of which will beapparent presently.

B' is a disk arranged within and supported a suitable distance above thebottom ofthe outer cylinder, A, and of sufficiently-greater diameterthan the inner cylinder, B, to permit the V latterto rest thereon; andit may have a iiange around its outer edge to fit against the lowerouter edge of the inner cylinder, as seen in Fig. l.

C is a shaft secured centrally to the disk B', having its lower endextended below the disk, as at c, and fitted to turn in a socket, d,upon the bottom of the outer cylinder, A, to eect the supporting of thedisk above the bottom of the latter cylinder, and extended upward andthrough a yoke, D, whose ends 5o are bent downward and enter sockets, asat t Model.)

D', upon the cylinder A, to permit of ready removal of the yoke. Theupper end of the shaft has a handle, c', for the operation of themachine.

As above intimated, the inner cylinder rests upon the disk B', thepurpose of which will appear hereinafter. The space or chamber below thedisk B', is to permit the passage of water thereunder. The disk B' hasnumerous apertures, e, to permit the boiling water to pulsate up throughit into contact with the fabrics, to aid the cleansing operation.

f f are ribs or bars of an inverted-V-shaped form secured upon the uppersurface of the disk B', after the manner of the arrangement of thespokes of a Wheel, the shaft C forming the center or base of radiation.These ribs or bars permit of the supporting of the fabrics slightlyabove the apertures e, to allow the pulsating water to have full playupon the fabrics.

To prevent the independent rotation of the inner cylinder is the objectof the Vshaped arms a, which fit upon any two of the ribsf when thecylinder is seated upon the disk B'. The inner cylinder being separate`from the disk B', which serves as its bottom, as above intimated, iscapable of ready and easy removal, by which, when the disk and cylinder,with the fabrics, are lifted out of the cylinder A after washing andremoved to a tub, the cylinder can be removed and allow the fabrics tobe all simultaneously emptied into the tub for rinsing. The cylinder B,having been lifted out of the tub, the disk B' is readily removed bypushing off with the hand the fabrics and elevating it out of the tub bypulling upward upon its shaft C. The yoke D and handle c' are alsoremovable for this purpose.

It will be observed that by the pulsating action of the water, which iskept in astate ot' ebullition, and the reciprocation of the innercylinder with the disk by forcibly turning the handle one way and thenin a reverse direction, the operation of washing or cleansing thefabrics is performed. I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States- In a washing-machine, the combination, with IOO thecylinder A, of the disk B', having the shaft l In testimony WhoreofIailx my signature in C c, the perforations e, and the, radial bars orpresence of two Witnesses. ribsf, and the bottomless cylinder B, havingatxed to the inside of its lower end inverted- VAN VAN DENBURGH 5iV-shaped arms or sockets a, fitted upon vtho Wit'iesses:

ribs or barsfof the disk B', substantially as HARLOW LAWRENCE,

and for the purpose sot 'ortli. WILLIAM H. RYALLS.

